The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-16
Local and State Notes.

George BrecOunt, general N.
A & c., has been SO i'll for two or three days as
to confine him to the house. His troubles are of
malarial character.
Commencing with to-day the Decline tra,,
east from here, leaving the Union Depot at Hos
A. NJ, will haul through coach for both Fort
Wayne and Dayton, Q.
The Terre Haute works are still idle &C.
count of strike of seventy-five men employed
in the planning mill. The only department. in
which anything is doing is the foundry.
Geo. NJ Green who was injured in the wreck
on the L., N. A. & c. road near Greencastle
junction last week is moro seriously hurt than
at first supposed. He will lose one of his legs.
w. 81. Wright, who for a number of years
past has been with the Bee line, has resigned
to accept a responsible position in the general
passenger department of the Cleveland & Akron
road.
At present there is q wonderful harmony be-
tween the roads in the Trunk line and the Cen
trail Traffic associations, but it is noticeable that
all the knotty questions and disputes are settled
only temporarily.
Vicepresident FELTON,, of the Erie road and a
number of other officials, will this week make
an extended Western trip. They will be in Chi
cago to-day and St. Louis and Indianapolis
later in the week.
The Pennsylvania Company are turning out at
their shops in FIT. Wayne three complete loco
motives per month. Master Mechanic Cassnave
last week received an order to build twenty four
more of the large class '1' freight engines.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton e Dayton and the
Cincinnati, Washington s. Baltimore railroad
companies negotiating with the LeGrande
Crossing signal Company for one of their signals
to be put In at the crossing of the two roads.
The rate clerks and compilers of the roads in
the Central Traffic Association meet on Wednes-
day next at the Office of Commissioner Daniels
Chicago. to arrange the basis of rates on second
class, round-trip and summer tourists travel
The Wagner Door Company last week received
orders for equipping with their door 900 box
cars to be built for the Toledo St Louis & Kan
sas City road, 500 for the Fort Scott & Gulf
road, and 500 for the st. Louis & San Francisco
road.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Louisville Evansville g. ST. Louis road it was
voted to extend the line to Rockpors, Ind. This
is an old project, but until now the company has
not been IN financial shape to construct this
branch.
In commenting the differential rate ques-
ton, Pennsylvania railroad official is quoted as
saying: "We will allow this sort of thing to go
on for the present, but when please to do so
We will take the question up unsettled
matter"
The proposed ST. Louis & Cincinnati railroad
has taken definite shape, or at least township in
Bartholomew, Brown, Monroe and Greene are
being asked to vote the tax, with good prospects
of success. The idea is to commence working
on the road early next spring.
1t is intimated that the Vandalla management
is about to lift the boycott on the Missouri Pa
cific. The managers of this property dislike to
sec people who live on the line drifting to
the l.. d. q s. and the l., B. & W., secure re-
duced rates to Kansas points.
Said general passenger agent last evening:
1.-THE announcement by the n. Y. p. & o. road
that they will sell mileage tickets at two cents
per mile is the entering wedge TO general
movement of this character. 1t means that be-
fore very long two-cent-pe rate will be
universally adopted by all the lines"
The only obstacle to the closing of the sale of
the Evansville & Terre Haute and the Evans
Vile q Indianapolis to the Porter syndicate is
that the Mackey syndicate wants 25 per cent.
premium on the watered stock. This the Por-
ter syndicate dislike to pay, but it is believed
that they will come to it between now and the
10Th, when their option expires.
The conditions of the interstate law are of
such a character that the coal operators in Indi-
ana and Illinois will be benefited 1t will cause
manufacturers to depend on the mines nearer
home for their supplies. This being the case
the purchase of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
by the Chicago & Indiana Block-coal Company
will produce excellent results for the latter COM
pany.
On Saturday night when the days work was
completed, the men in the repair shops of the
Lake Erie 81 Western railway, at Lafayette,
were let off, and the shops are to be closed. This
is believed to be only a temporary step, as La
fayette is division headquarters. and shops will
have to be maintained there The reason as
signed was that there was slackness in work,
and the expense account would have to be &C
cordingly curtailed.
The general manager of tho Lake Erie &
Western road will to-day issue the following
take effect at once: 1T. W. Lee is hereby
appointed general passenger agent Of this com
pany, vice George w. Smith, resigned. 5.
e. Sweet is hereby appointed commercial agent